Knowledge
of the treatment of diseases is another sphere where we find a close
relation between the Oraon community and its environment. Treatment of
diseases is invariably based on the use of medicinal herbs found in the
region. There are about 34 kinds of disease which are treated with such
medicines. These include pain (headache, toothache, stomachache, eye pain,
ear pain, migraine), fever (high, ordinary, malaria), wounds, constipation,
diarrhoea, dysentery, epilepsy,

rheumatism, insomnia,
tetanus, eczema, etc. These are treated with medicines based on leaves,
roots, the bark of trees, and with plants which grow wild in the jungle.
Some of them are grown in their fields by the people themselves.